Open Educational Resources (OER): Resources for Faculty

"Faculty members struggle to find open educational resources or even understand what they are -- but solutions are bubbling up."

"OER awareness has crossed the halfway mark for U.S. faculty for the first time, and adoption continues to grow."

A VIDEO (5 min), an animation illustrating the steps involved in embedding open licenses in educational resources; a summary description and links to additional resources.

Online platforms to search for OER, including by ISBN, free teaching materials, and more.

"Science faculty throughout the world are adopting virtual labs to engage students in learning through active participation rather than passive observation."

"The Open Access Teaching Case Journal (OATCJ) is a multi-disciplinary repository of quality, real-world teaching cases for students and instructors that are free-to-use, free-to-publish, and accessible to all. The JOURNAL is supported using open educational practices (OEP) and is aligned with the United Nations Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) by providing a rigorous and developmentally supportive peer-review process for case authors without the expectation of financial remuneration."

"100 Ideas for Active Learning is a practical handbook to inspire innovative educational experiences. It is for educators and curriculum designers who wish to apply active learning tools and strategies in their own teaching and learning contexts."

Community of Online Research Assignments: An open access resource for faculty and librarians.

Best Practices and Case Studies, 2020

Faculty feedback on using OER, tools for finding OER, and more.

"CCCOER is a growing consortium of community and technical colleges committed to expanding access to education and increasing student success through adoption of open educational policy, practices, and resources. We provide a community and resources to learn about the evolving practice of open education."

Guidelines for designing teaching and learning. "The book examines the underlying principles that guide effective teaching in an age when all of us, and in particular the students we are teaching, are using technology. A framework for making decisions about your teaching is provided, while understanding that every subject is different, and every instructor has something unique and special to bring to their teaching."

For K-12 educators

In Blended and Flipped Learning.

5 tips for Making the Switch to Multimodal Assignments

You can search by project or state.

"The idea of empowering students and inviting students to be content and knowledge co-creators. Open pedagogy sees students as whole people with different perspectives, ideas, and skills that are valuable to the classroom and lend authenticity to the learning process.

A definition provided by SPARC.

"The toolkit defines open pedagogy, the benefits of open pedagogy, and the rights and responsibilities that come with being a student creator. Instructors may wish to use this toolkit as a resource to scaffold conversations about open pedagogy with their students and to appropriately prepare them for working in the open."

"Browse case studies/renewable assignments and student work product by discipline, search by keywords, or find teaching and learning resources to further your open pedagogy journey."

A hub for information and links about OER, Open Educational Practices and Pedagogy, and Open Education activities and projects at University of Toronto.

A blog post by David Wiley, one of the founders of the OER movement. He provides a definition and applications of the concept, as well as examples of student work in the context of open pedagogy.

Browse through the examples, which include both classroom-tested practices and budding ideas, and consider contributing examples of your own experiments with open pedagogy.

An open access journal of learning, teaching, & technology.
"Slow Interdisciplinarity" - an article by A.Goode, published on November 12, 2019.

"This volume (published 2019) provides readers with methods, case stories, and strategies related to Hybrid-Flexible (HyFlex) course design so that they may make decisions about using it themselves and even begin their own HyFlex course (re)design."

Micro-lessons for busy educators.

An open access book edited by A. Clifton and K.D. Hoffman, 2020

Examples of and issues about open pedagogy. From University of British Columbia.

"Open Resources for Student-Centered & Adaptive Strategies in the New Higher-Ed Landscape offers practical and engaging advice about what "next" should look like across higher education, from sixteen current and forthcoming authors."

Lumen Waymaker: Personalized Open Courseware from Lumen Learning: video introduction (2:06 min), feature guide, startup guide, course list, and more.

"Designed by educators, Lumen Online Homework Manager (OHM) draws from thousands of interactive assessment questions to help students master math and other quantitative skills."

Textbook eSources provides course help for instructors on select Baker Academic textbooks. These resources are custom-designed to help you integrate the textbook into your classroom.

In six categories subdivided in various topics: online teaching strategies, online course design, classroom management, and more.